Why Thailand

I'm back recently from a missions trip in Thailand.
It's a very startling place in both darkness and light. There's honesty there, not the greyness that most Irish people portray. Here, I think we don't want to let people into our lives but the Thais(from what I've seen which is a very small group) are humble and open in that respect. They know they're needy when they are. The believers fully accept that they have something that must be shared. They unashamed and confident to get involved in the lives of others.

I was inspired and perhaps even a little embarrassed by the active ministry present. One guy, Bobby is the same age as me. Bobby goes in, by himself or with one young teen, into several prisions three times a week. He gives out necessary things like fruit, toiletries and water, but he also reaches out to the souls of the people he helps and listens to their lives and applies the Gospel. This embarrasses me because it completely unlike my comfortable ministry.

Pattaya is a town full of Christian pioneers. That excites me. When I go back, which I plan to, it won't be about giving what I have, because that isn't that much. It will be about learning how to love and live closer to the way Jesus asked us to. I want to go to serve. I pray that I will get this opportunity because it will change me.